Sunday, November 13, 2011

Deer Drive scores on Mac App Store

We know that majority of visitors of this blog comes here for the news of our truck simulators, but there are other things happening at SCS Software, too. One of our goals is reaching feature parity in our 3D engine between the Windows PC and Mac platforms. We have started executing on this strategy by first porting our older, simpler games to Mac - first with good old Bus Driver, and now with another older game Deer Drive.

Bus Driver experienced a very good start on Mac, and now several months after it was introduced to Mac App Store, it still regularly features in Top 100 Top Selling Games.

Deer Drive has started phenomenally, a few days after release it is now well inside Top 10 Top Selling Games.

These days of course we are fully focused on truck simulation, but this additional business actually makes significant contribution to sustaining the development of Euro Truck Simulator 2.

The next stage of the plan is porting the original Euro Truck Simulator to Mac, we hope to confirm that the genre can be as successful on Mac as it has been for us on Windows. The more players we can reach and turn into paying customers, the more feature-packed we can afford to make our future games!

To be honest, I never liked your hunting games. I'm not silly moralist, I have nothing against games like these; this genre is just not for me. (Once I tried Ocean Dive and I liked it. :-)

Though I'm first your trucking games fan, I'm delighted for every partial success of your business and always like to read it. Porting games to MacOS seems to be smart move! Maybe porting ALH or PTTM to Mac could bring sweet fruit too, as Mac users are primarily in United States.

The trouble with 18 Wheels of Steel series is that they do not really belong to us. We were only the developer working on a contract, but the game franchise belongs to ValuSoft. We have no control over the 18 WoS games' destiny after there were completed. But indeed we are trying to persuade ValuSoft to license ALH back to us to be able to try it out on Mac too.

DONT GIVE AWAY RIGTH OF ETS2, keep for you self and improve and support when need it. This game will make you independant from them and make you some desent money!

Remember 1 thing, the company who listning to they customers and fitfull they wishes ( in normal manner and requests ) get payid off by customers support since they buy they product as it is what they want.

This has been proven many times with MMO arogant developers who was ignoring they customers and failed badly, after some loss like this is hard to recover.

I have to agree with Titou A Bus Driver 2 like Bus Driver but more of a simulation would be good it could easily be made just by modifying ETS2 a bit though if a Bus Driver 2 were to use ETS2 map the city's would need to be expanded a lot so It would make more sense just make the Bus Driver 1 map bigger with say 2 or 3 cities it would take little over a month to do with 1 city already done the graphics and physics already done and most other stuff already done from ETS2. I would pre order it as sonnas I could pre order it. I still play Bus Driver 1.5 in fact I think I will start Bus Driver righ now...

"^ and "say ass soon" is also nice typo. ;-D" I type way too fast and not read the preview will read preview for this post to make sure there are no typos :D also i went a bit off topic although a Bus Driver 2 more like a bus Simulation with 2 or 3 city's connected by countryside would be nice it isn't to do with Deer Drive on Mac App Store but SCS soft a Bus Driver 2 would be very successful look at how many sales Bus Driver has had on mac app store. Good luck SCS and also any update on ETS2?

Wow, this was so long ago when you came out with Deer Drive. I can reminisce with this, because it reminds me of the old SCS Software, when you guys created games with other people. It makes me realize how wonderful you are now. That's good news for you. And I'm glad that you are doing all that is possible to get money, because I would be devastated if you guys went out of business. This is coming straight from my heart.

I translated that TV coverage on ETS2 which someone uploaded on YouTube (four comments above) to english, as there are minimum of fans who speak czech and I'm sure they want to know what Pavel says. :-D

My english isn't excellent, I know it, and I hope you'll excuse spelling mistakes. Since I can't contact uploader and submit subtitles right into video, I transcribed it into separate rtf file. In fact there's no need for video and text sync, as moving pictures are only for background purposes. Enjoy. :-)

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